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enA Common Patriotic Spirithttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/04/common-patriotic-spirit-160955
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) of the Chickasaw Nation shared his thoughts on what Independence Day means to him.</em></p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 04 Jul 2015 14:38:27 +0000kpolisse160955 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/04/common-patriotic-spirit-160955#commentsICTMN’s July 4 Weekend Pow Wow Guidehttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/03/ictmns-july-4-weekend-pow-wow-guide-160950
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>How will you celebrate July 4? Attend a barbecue? Spend time with family and friends? Watch the Fireworks? </span></p>
<p><span>If you haven’t made plans yet, check out </span><a href="http://blogs.pechanga.com/newsroom/pechanga-hosts-4th-of-july-fireworks-for-community/" target="_blank">Pechanga Resort Casino’s (in Temacula, Calif.) annual 4th of July fireworks</a> for the community show, which begins at 9p.m. PST. Or, if you’re closer to the East coast, the 94th Annual Mashpee Wampanoag Pow Wow in Falmouth, Mass. will celebrate the Fourth with a fireball show at dusk.</p>
<p><span>For a complete list of pow wows happening this weekend and throughout the year, visit ICTMN’s pow wow listing by clicking </span><a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/pow-wow-list">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong><span>RELATED</span>:</strong> <a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/04/july-4-good-time-affirm-our-original-independence">July 4: A Good Time to Affirm Our Original Independence</a></p>
<p><strong><span>4th of July Pow Wow</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong>When &amp; Where:</strong> July 3-4; Kayenta, Arizona</span></p>
<p><span>For more information, call (780)585-3065.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span>16th Rosebud Casino Annual Wacipi</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong>When &amp; Where:</strong> July 3-5; Valentine, Nebraska</span></p>
<p><span>For more information, visit </span><a href="http://rosebudcasino.com/2015wacipi/" target="_blank">RosebudCasino.com</a>.</p>
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<p><strong><span>14th Annual Native American Festival</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong>When &amp; Where: </strong>July 4-5; Leesport, Pennsylvania</span></p>
<p><span>For more information, call (610) 468-5216.</span></p>
<p></div></div></div>Fri, 03 Jul 2015 18:53:26 +0000rcjohnson160950 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/03/ictmns-july-4-weekend-pow-wow-guide-160950#commentsHow Did I Miss That? Actress Flies Coach for a Cause; Crazy Ann Coulterhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/07/04/how-did-i-miss-actress-flies-coach-cause-crazy-ann-coulter-155608
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This column appears on the holiday declared inaccurately to be the birthday of the United States of America. Hearing this remark, my cousin Ray Sixkiller asked why I hate BBQ, fireworks, and ice cream?</p></div></div></div>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:00:12 +0000mazecyrus155608 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/07/04/how-did-i-miss-actress-flies-coach-cause-crazy-ann-coulter-155608#commentsSand Creek Massacre Site Hosts Independence Day Eventshttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/07/04/sand-creek-massacre-site-hosts-independence-day-events-155640
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On November 29, 1864, Cheyenne Chief White Antelope sang his death song as some 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne were massacred by Colorado Volunteers of the U.S. Army at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:00:00 +0000leeanne155640 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/07/04/sand-creek-massacre-site-hosts-independence-day-events-155640#commentsJuly 4 Weekend Pow Wow Plannerhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/07/03/july-4-weekend-pow-wow-planner-155635
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>Corn on the cob, wild boar ribs, the American flag rippling in the wind, and of course, fireworks. Does it feel like the 4th of July yet?</span></p>
<p><span>Well, we’re almost there. But instead of getting caught up in the traditional celebrations, let's celebrate Native American traditions by visiting one of these pow wows.</span></p>
<p><span>Feeling the fireworks yet? </span></p>
<p><img alt="(Courtesy QuapawTribe.com)" class="media-image" height="1536" style="width: 580px; height: 387px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="2304" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://d1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/default/files/uploads/quapaw_pow_wow.jpg" title="" /></p>
<p><strong><span>142nd Annual Quapaw Pow Wow</span></strong></p>
<p><span>When &amp; Where:</span> July 3-6; Quapaw, Oklahoma</p>
<p><span>For more information, go to: </span><a href="http://pawneenation.org">QuapawTribe.com</a></p>
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<p><strong><span>Northern Cheyenne Chiefs Pow Wow and Rodeo Celebration</span></strong></p>
<p><span>When &amp; Where:</span> July 3-6; Lame Deer, Montana</p>
<p><span>For more information, go to: </span><a href="http://pawneenation.org">CheyenneNation.com</a></p>
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<p><strong><span>68th Annual Pawnee Indian Veterans Homecoming Pow Wow</span></strong></p>
<p><span>When &amp; Where: </span>July 3-6; Pawnee, Oklahoma</p>
<p><span>For more information, go to: </span><a href="http://pawneenation.org">PawneeNation.org</a></p>
<p></div></div></div>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:43:16 +0000rcjohnson155635 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/07/03/july-4-weekend-pow-wow-planner-155635#commentsWithout the First Americans, There Would Be No U.S.A.http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/04/without-first-americans-there-would-be-no-usa
<fieldset class="field-group-fieldset group-opinions-body form-wrapper" id="node_opinion_rss_group_opinions_body"><legend><span class="fieldset-legend">Body</span></legend><div class="fieldset-wrapper"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As a kid, to me the Fourth of July was all about one thing: fireworks. I grew up in the country in the Dakotas, where lighting off fireworks was pretty much a rite of passage for reservation kids. Roman candles, firecrackers, smoke bombs, artillery shells, and oft dreaded bottle rockets are still sold from make shift stands and big top tents on rural roadsides all across the prairie. Sure, in school we read about George Washington, Paul Revere and the Revolutionary War, but as Natives, we felt pretty disconnected from mainstream American history.</p>
<p>I would later discover that Natives aren’t the only ones who fail to grasp the significance of our Indigenous ancestors in the history of the land that would later be called the United States of America. Those very textbooks are proof. In public schools, any mention of Natives is likely relegated to a few paragraphs about Thanksgiving, Pocahontas or Sacajawea. You might hear about The Battle of Little Big Horn in passing, but only as "Custer’s Last Stand."</p>
<p>Natives aren’t given a lot of exposure in mainstream culture either. You’ll rarely, if ever, see a Native character on television or in the mainstream media. While we’ve made strides in representing ourselves positively on a national platform, we’ve got a ways to go to achieve accuracy in the depiction of us as a People. This is evidenced by false imagery that’s saturated pop culture, ala scantily clad white women in headdresses and war paint, and the tolerance of negative stereotypical mascots like the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins.</p>
<p>In reality, Natives have played a pivotal role in American history and will continue to do so. There’s no doubt that European immigrants would not have survived long enough to form the 13 colonies but for the assistance of Natives on the east coast. Besides providing the first handouts to the starving and diseased European aliens who landed, Natives taught them how to fish, hunt, and plant foods in North America, how to build watercraft, and maneuver along Native trails.</p>
<p>Today, around half of the globe’s food supply comes from crops like corn and potatoes- which were originally cultivated by Natives. Cotton, a key fabric source, was also first grown by Natives. Medicines derived from Native plants were used by Natives in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans.</p>
<p>That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Most Americans are completely clueless to the fact that the U.S. Constitution has a Native foundation. Ben Franklin, one America’s ‘founding fathers,’ modeled much of the Constitution after the Iroquois Confederacy. Even today, the way the congressional House of Representatives works with the Senate is rooted in how the Iroquois Confederacy was run.</p>
<p>Natives affected the revolutionary social concepts of early Americans too. Europeans who immigrated here came from countries that were monarchies. Their countries of origin were very socially stratified, with castes. In other words, if someone were born into poverty, they were likely doomed to remain such for life. For such a person, the option of earning an education or pursuing a gainful means of employment was extremely remote. Natives and their vast lands introduced Europeans to the concept of individual dignity and a person’s right to be free. For example, if a Native man didn’t wish to hunt or fight in battle, he wasn’t forced to do so. There were also Native women who became warriors and who held leadership positions within their Tribe. The concept of individual freedom, in the European mind, became one’s right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Mixed with capitalistic greed, such liberty gave birth to the phenomena once known as ‘The American Dream."</p>
<p>Natives are recognized for having enlisted and served in the military more than any other ethnic group in the United States. Even before they were granted citizenship, Natives fought on the side of the U.S. in military engagements. Guerilla warfare as learned by colonists from watching and fighting Natives who practiced it pre-Revolutionary War gave U.S. forces an edge against Britain when they fought for independence. Americans who carried out one of the first acts of rebellion against the British Crown, called The Boston Tea Party, did so dressed as Mohawk Tribesman. An act of cowardice? I think so. Yet it’s undeniable that such an event would not have happened without the presence of Natives, and our exemplary courage.</p>
<p>Young Americans are once again looking to Natives for inspiration. Occupy protestors cite key Native historical figures like Oglala Lakota Chief Tasunke Witko (Crazy Horse) as role models of defiance, strength, and bravery in the face of tyranny.</p>
<p>Environmentalists are also beginning to seek out Indigenous knowledge on how to develop a sustainable economy built around green energy and working with the land, rather than trying to conquer and destroy it.</p>
<p>As citizens shell out big bucks for Chinese explosives this Fourth of July, I hope they’ll take some time to think about the contributions of Natives to the growth and development of this country as it stands today. No people save African Americans have paid such a steep price for the American Empire as Natives have. Until the country as a whole comes to this realization, it will continue to decline and face tragic consequences. Without the First Americans, Natives, there would be no United States.</p>
<p><em>Ruth Hopkins (Sisseton-Wahpeton/Mdewakanton/Hunkpapa) is an administrator, ethnoscientist, tribal judge, speaker, and writer. She is a columnist for Indian Country Today Media Network and the editor and a writer for LastRealIndians.com. Watch for the publication of her first book.</em></p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-short-title field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Short title:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Without the First Am</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-category field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/all" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">All</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/culture" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Culture</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/government" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Government</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/history" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">History</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/human-rights" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Human rights</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/identity" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Identity</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/land" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Land</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/racism" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Racism</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/sovereignty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sovereignty</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-full-name field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Full name:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ruth Hopkins</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/ruth-hopkins" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ruth Hopkins</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/pocahontas" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Pocahontas</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/george-washington-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">George Washington</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/revolutionary-war" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Revolutionary War</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/july-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">July 4</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/fourth-july" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fourth of July</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/4th-july" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">4th of July</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/paul-revere" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Paul Revere</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/sacajawea" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sacajawea</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/battle-little-big-horn-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Battle of Little Big Horn</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/custers-last-stand" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Custer&#039;s Last Stand</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/boston-tea-party" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Boston Tea Party</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-image field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Author image:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/ruth-hopkins" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ruth Hopkins</a></div></div></div>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:40:49 +0000mazecyrus122012 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/04/without-first-americans-there-would-be-no-usa#commentsJuly 4: A Good Time to Affirm Our Original Independencehttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/04/july-4-good-time-affirm-our-original-independence
<fieldset class="field-group-fieldset group-opinions-body form-wrapper" id="node_opinion_rss_group_opinions_body"><legend><span class="fieldset-legend">Body</span></legend><div class="fieldset-wrapper"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Today, July 4, the United States of America celebrates its Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. Thomas Jefferson put pen to paper in Philadelphia to express in clear form a number of ideas that are still considered by many to be foundational to the United States as a political experiment. The document that he drafted, slightly modified by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and the rest of the drafting committee, was approved on July 4, 1776.</p>
<p>In my view, July 4 is a good opportunity for us to reflect on the original free and independent existence of our American Indian ancestors and the original independence of our nations and peoples. It is important to remain mindful of the fact that we have an amazing spiritual and political legacy: Our original existence, independent and free of any Christian European claims of dominance or “plenary power” over us.</p>
<p>The 13 British colonies declared themselves to be “states” and then joined themselves together in a league or common confederation. They had no original free and independent existence that they could invoke for themselves. As colonies they were a product of empire and monarchy. With no original free existence to point to, they had to claim that they had a “right” to “dissolve the political bands” which connected them to the British crown, based on the rationale that they were being abused by “the tyranny” of the crown.</p>
<p>Jefferson’s “Original Rough Draft of the Declaration” reads in part: “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, &amp; to assume among the powers of the earth the equal &amp; independent [sic] station to which the laws of nature &amp; of nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the change.”</p>
<p>According to Jefferson’s wording, the thirteen colonies were declaring that they had the right as colonies “<em>to assume</em> among the powers of the earth the equal &amp; independant [sic] station to which the laws of nature &amp; nature’s god entitle them….” (Emphasis added.) The final version of the Declaration of Independence reads:</p>
<p>When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</p>
<p>Interesting, that our thousands of years of original free and independent existence as nations and peoples are not recognized or acknowledged by the society of the United States on the 4th of July? Yet ours is the original independence of Turtle Island.</p>
<p>So, what does the United States government claim happened to the original free and independent existence of our nations? According to the United States, Christian European discovery is what happened to the original free and independent existence of Indian nations.</p>
<p>In the 1823 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Johnson &amp; Graham’s <em>Lessee v. M’Intosh</em>, Chief Justice John Marshall said of the Indians: “Their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished by the original fundamental principle that discovery gave title to those who made it [the discovery].” In this context and in the previous sentence, the term “title” means “title of dominion” or, to be more precise, a claimed right to and a claimed title to domination.</p>
<p>To claim that the original sovereignty and independence of our nations was “diminished” by Christian European “discovery” posits that our original independence “ended” as a result of Christian European claims of “discovery.”</p>
<p>In relation to what were our Indian nations considered by the U.S. Supreme Court to have become "less than" completely sovereign and independent? The answer is, in relation to the presumption of territorial dominance of the United States government within the boundaries that the United States claimed. For the United States this traces back to, among other founding documents, the Declaration of Independence.</p>
<p>Thus, July 4 is a good day for us to reflect on a cruel irony: While it celebrates its independence, the United States government considers our originally free nations and peoples to have no right to rise from the subordinated position that the U.S. now claims that we occupy based on Christian European claimed rights to discovery and dominance.</p>
<p><em>Steven Newcomb (Shawneee/Lenape) is co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute, author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (Fulcrum, 2008), and the Indigenous and Kumeyaay Research Coordinator for the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation.</em></p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-short-title field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Short title:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">July 4: A Good Time </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-category field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/all" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">All</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/culture" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Culture</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/discrimination" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Discrimination</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/government" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Government</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/history" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">History</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/human-rights" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Human rights</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/land" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Land</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/legal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Legal</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/politics" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Politics</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/sovereignty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sovereignty</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-full-name field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Full name:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Steven Newcomb</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/steven-newcomb" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Steven Newcomb</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/us-supreme-court" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">U.S. Supreme Court</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/john-marshall" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Marshall</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/thomas-jefferson-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Thomas Jefferson</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/declaration-independence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Declaration of Independence</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/turtle-island" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Turtle Island</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/benjamin-franklin" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Benjamin Franklin</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/lessee-v-m%E2%80%99intosh" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lessee v. M’Intosh</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/july-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">July 4</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/independence-day" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Independence Day</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/4th-july" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">4th of July</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/john-adams" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Adams</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-image field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Author image:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/steven-newcomb" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Steven Newcomb</a></div></div></div>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:00:03 +0000mazecyrus121871 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/04/july-4-good-time-affirm-our-original-independence#commentsAboriginals Seek to Raise Awareness of Role in Country's Formation as Canada Day Is Markedhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/01/aboriginals-seek-raise-awareness-role-countrys-formation-canada-day-marked-121629
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Canada Day—that country’s equivalent of the Fourth of July, the U.S.'s Independence Day—is fraught with ambivalence for aboriginals, and perhaps even more so this year, as the country marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:19:02 +0000theresa121629 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/01/aboriginals-seek-raise-awareness-role-countrys-formation-canada-day-marked-121629#commentsHarrah's Cherokee Casino Hopes to Debut Live Table Games on July 4 Holidayhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/19/harrahs-cherokee-casino-hopes-debut-live-table-games-july-4-holiday-119210
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="caption" style="float:left;width:270;margin-right:10px;margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/05/27/harrahs-cherokee-and-caesars-entertainment-renew-relationship-for-seven-years-36096/chief-hicks"><i></i></a></div></div></div></div>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:47:09 +0000klb678119210 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/19/harrahs-cherokee-casino-hopes-debut-live-table-games-july-4-holiday-119210#commentsFourth of July Remembrance: Chief Black Hawk's Farewell Speechhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/04/fourth-july-remembrance-chief-black-hawks-farewell-speech-121756
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="caption" style="float:left;width:270;margin-right:10px;margin-bottom: 10px;"></div></div></div></div>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:00:25 +0000leeanne121756 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/04/fourth-july-remembrance-chief-black-hawks-farewell-speech-121756#comments